then we have lincoln and reconstruction. we have the progress of era and the new deal, and more. is this the age of obama and democracy? host: what to do you think? caller: he talked about inclusion and diversity, but how subsidizing public housing has not been on the agenda at all -- there are a lot of minorities. i live in public housing and i am and minority. i live in harlem. we have been invited to washington to work and issues with public housing and what happened was, through obama, i have to confess, they tried to twist our arm. what happened is there is a demonstration that will be in a couple years. all subsidizing housing throughout the country, including section 8 in multi- family dwellings, and it gives the right of the fall -- a gives for-profit owners the right to take public housing. if we do that, we destroyed a major part of the social safety net. and there is a bill that was passed and signed by clinton for 1998 that makes people in public housing between the ages of 19 and 62 forced to do forced community service. that violates 13th amendment rights. nobody sa